Journal of Rural Studies

Article	Citations
Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation	169
The adoption and impact of E-commerce in rural China: Application of an endogenous switching regression model	135
An analysis of farmers’ intention to use green pesticides: The application of the extended theory of planned behavior and health belief model	124
Targeted poverty alleviation and its practices in rural China: A case study of Fuping county, Hebei Province	116
Rural innovation system: Revitalize the countryside for a sustainable development	101
Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China	95
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China	87
Farmers' perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in South Africa's Western Cape	83
Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality: A systematic review of the empirical and quantitative literature	77
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects	76
Rural revitalization of Xiamei: The development experiences of integrating tea tourism with ancient village preservation	74
The spatial aggregation of rural e-commerce in China: An empirical investigation into Taobao Villages	71
Farm size and agricultural technology progress: Evidence from China	69
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index	69
The impact of land consolidation on rural vitalization at village level: A case study of a Chinese village	65
Local place identity: A comparison between residents of rural and urban communities	64
How does the rural settlement transition contribute to shaping sustainable rural development? Evidence from Shandong, China	64
Hollowed out Heartland, USA: How capital sacrificed communities and paved the way for authoritarian populism	61
E-commerce and the transformation of the rural: The Taobao village phenomenon in Zhejiang Province, China	60
Digital revolution and rural family income: Evidence from China	55
Changing priorities, shifting narratives: Remapping rural livelihoods in Africa's artisanal and small-scale mining sector	53
Farmland landscape fragmentation evolution and its driving mechanism from rural to urban: A case study of Changzhou City	53
Agroforestry transitions: The good, the bad and the ugly	53
Income effect of rural E-commerce: Empirical evidence from Taobao villages in China	51
Study on spatial tropism distribution of rural settlements in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region based on natural factors and traffic accessibility	50

Multi-objective spatial reconstruction of rural settlements considering intervillage social connections	50
Disruptive innovation in agriculture: Socio-cultural factors in technology adoption in the developing world	49
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?	49
Role of social networks in building household livelihood resilience under payments for ecosystem services programs in a poor rural community in China	49
Evolution of cultivated land fragmentation and its driving mechanism in rural development: A case study of Jiangsu Province	49
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture	49
Co-evolution of technology and rural society: The blossoming of taobao villages in the information era, China	48
Will social capital affect farmers’ choices of climate change adaptation strategies? Evidences from rural households in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	47
Robot-ready: How apple producers are assembling in anticipation of new AI robotics	47
Governing agricultural innovation: A comprehensive framework to underpin sustainable transitions	46
Implications of the digital divide on rural SME resilience	46
Gambling in the garden: Pesticide use and risk exposure in Ugandan smallholder farming	46
Association between mental health and community support in lockdown communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from rural China	45
The promised land? Exploring the future visions and narrative silences of cellular agriculture in news and industry media	44
Co-designing a smartphone app for and with farmers: Empathising with end-users’ values and needs	44
Agricultural cooperatives contributing to the alleviation of rural poverty. The case of Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	44
The assessment of rural development: Identification of an applicable set of indicators through a Delphi approach	44
How digitalisation interacts with ecologisation? Perspectives from actors of the French Agricultural Innovation System	43
Livelihood resilience and the generative mechanism of rural households out of poverty: An empirical analysis from Lankao County, Henan Province, China	43
Transitions in rural settlements and implications for rural revitalization in Guangdong Province	41
Comprehensive land consolidation as a development policy for rural vitalisation: Rural In Situ Urbanisation through semi socio-economic restructuring in Huai Town	40
Automatic milking systems and farmer wellbeing–exploring the effects of automation and digitalization in dairy farming	39
What to do with the farmland? Coping with ageing in rural Thailand	39
A framework for recognizing diversity beyond capitalism in agri-food systems	38
Peripheries within economic geography: Four “problems” and the road ahead of us	38
Peasant households’ land use decision-making analysis using social network analysis: A case of Tantou Village, China	38
Sensemaking and the influencing factors on farmer decision-making	38
Does the Common Agricultural Policy enhance farming systems’ resilience? Applying the Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT) to a farming system case study in the Netherlands	38
Gender and the environmental concerns of young farmers: Do young women farmers make a difference on family farms?	37
Dying villages to prosperous villages: A perspective from revitalization of idle rural residential land (IRRL)	37
Mapping the research domains on work in agriculture. A bibliometric review from Scopus database	37
Building agroecology with people. Challenges of participatory methods to deepen on the agroecological transition in different contexts	37
Understanding farm generational renewal and its influencing factors in Europe	37
Evolution and transformation mechanism of the spatial structure of rural settlements from the perspective of long-term economic and social change: A case study of the Sunan region, China	37
Growing algorithmic governmentality: Interrogating the social construction of trust in precision agriculture	37
The rural exodus of young people from empty Spain. Socio-educational aspects	36
The value of cultural ecosystem services in a rural landscape context	36
Improving the framework for analyzing community resilience to understand rural revitalization pathways in China	35
Coastal transitions: Small-scale fisheries, livelihoods, and maritime zone developments in Southeast Asia	35
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater	35
The impact of the land certificated program on the farmland rental market in rural China	35
Does land tenure fragmentation aggravate farmland abandonment? Evidence from big survey data in rural China	35
County-rural revitalization spatial differences and model optimization in Miyun District of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	34
The transformative innovation potential of cellular agriculture: Political and policy stakeholders’ perceptions of cultured meat in Germany	34
The impact of oil palm on rural livelihoods and tropical forest landscapes in Latin America	33
Non-point source pollution in response to rural transformation development: A comprehensive analysis of China's traditional farming area	33
Rural vitalization promoted by industrial transformation under globalization: The case of Tengtou village in China	33
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China	33
Gendered division of labour and “sympathy” in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Prestea-Huni Valley Municipality, Ghana	32
The status of perceived community resilience in transitional rural society: An empirical study from central China	31

Rural communities as a context for entrepreneurship: Exploring perceptions of youth and business owners	31
From conversion to conservation to carbon: The changing policy discourse on mangrove governance and use in the Philippines	31
Smart farming in mountain areas: Investigating livestock farmers’ technophobia and technophilia and their perception of innovation	31
‘You can't eat data’?: Moving beyond the misconfigured innovations of smart farming	31
Agroecological break out: Legumes, crop diversification and the regenerative futures of UK agriculture	31
Demystifying the geography of income inequality in rural China: A transitional framework	31
Assemblage and the ‘good farmer’: New entrants to crofting in scotland	31
Neo-endogenous revitalisation: Enhancing community resilience through art tourism and rural entrepreneurship	30
The will for terroir: A communicative approach	30
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China	30
Evaluating the sustainability of rural complex ecosystems during the development of traditional farming villages into tourism destinations: A diachronic emergy approach	30
Rural attraction: The spatial pattern and driving factors of China's rural in-migration	30
The lost rural idyll? Tourists' attitudes towards sustainability and their influence on the production of rural space at a rural tourism hotspot in Northern Ireland	29
Digital from farm to fork: Infrastructures of quality and control in food supply chains	29
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support	29
New perspectives on the agriculture–migration nexus	29
Graduate unemployment, artisanal and small-scale mining, and rural transformation in Ghana: What does the ‘educated’ youth involvement offer?	29
Reconceptualising the rural through planetary thinking: A field experiment of sustainable approaches to rural revitalisation in China	28
Impact of poverty alleviation through relocation: From the perspectives of income and multidimensional poverty	28
The Success Factors of wine tourism entrepreneurship for rural area: A thematic biographical narrative analysis in Turkey	28
Beyond government-led or community-based: Exploring the governance structure and operating models for reconstructing China's hollowed villages	28
Social acceptance of dual land use approaches: Stakeholders' perceptions of the drivers and barriers confronting agrivoltaics diffusion	28
Social innovation in alternative food networks. The role of co-producers in Campi Aperti	28
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach	27
Innovation resistance and mobile banking in rural Colombia	27
Village development framework through self-help-group entrepreneurship, microcredit, and anchor customers in solar microgrids for cooperative sustainable rural societies	27
Rural revitalization through territorial distinctiveness: The use of geographical indications in Turkey	27
Entrepreneurs of the air: Sprayer drones as mediators of volumetric agriculture	27
The introduction of digital technologies into agriculture: Space, materiality and the public–private interacting forms of authority and expertise	27
“Of course we care!“: A qualitative exploration of Australian livestock producers’ understandings of farm animal welfare issues	27
What farmers want from mental health and wellbeing-focused websites and online interventions	27
Environmental change and the livelihood resilience of coffee farmers in Jamaica: A case study of the Cedar Valley farming region	27
Peri-urban agriculture as quiet sustainability: Challenging the urban development discourse in Sogamoso, Colombia	27
Primary school closures and population development – is school vitality an investment in the attractiveness of the (rural) communities or not?	26
Heritage policy meets community praxis: Widening conservation approaches in the traditional villages of central Greece	26
Importance of building bridging and linking social capital in adapting to changes in UK agricultural policy	26
Community supported agriculture: Setting the research agenda through a bibliometric analysis	25
Multi-dimensional superposition: Rural collaborative governance in Liushe Village, Suzhou City	25
‘Leaving no one unscathed’ in sustainability transitions: The life purging agro-extractivism of corporate renewables	25
The adoption of conservation agriculture by smallholder farmers in southern Africa: A scoping review of barriers and enablers	25
Lives in limbo: Migrant integration and rural governance in Sweden	25
Evaluating rural viability and well-being: Evidence from marginal areas in Tuscany	25
Is the European countryside depopulating? Case study Moravia	24
National specialization policy versus farmers’ priorities: Balancing subsistence farming and cash cropping in Nepal	24
Financial-related psychological factors affect life satisfaction of farmers	24
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	24
Amenities and new firm formation in rural areas	24
“Depopulation, community-based tourism, and community resilience in southwest Spain”	24
#farming365 – Exploring farmers’ social media use and the (re)presentation of farming lives	24
Innovation systems and affordances in climate smart agriculture	24
Rural nonfarm sector and rural residents’ income research in China. An empirical study on the township and village enterprises after ownership reform (2000-2013)	24
The impact of poverty alleviation policies on rural economic resilience in impoverished areas: A case study of Lankao County, China	24
‘Ghetto tomatoes’ and ‘taxi drivers’: The exploitation and control of Sub-Saharan African migrant tomato pickers in Puglia, Southern Italy	24
How Internet usage contributes to livelihood resilience of migrant peasant workers? Evidence from China	24
Exchanges among farmers’ collectives in support of sustainable agriculture: From review to reconceptualization	24
Cultural heritage as rural economic development: Batik production amongst China's Miao population	23
Entwined ruralities: Seasonality, simultaneity and precarity among transnational migrant workers in the wild berry industry	23
Different sales channels for different farmers: Local and mainstream marketing of organic fruits and vegetables in Norway	23
The end of the urban-rural dichotomy? Towards a new regional typology for SME performance	23
Who will benefit from big data? Farmers’ perspective on willingness to share farm data	23
What's the beef?: Debating meat, matters of concern and the emergence of online issue publics	23
Exploring the synergy between Community Supported Agriculture and agroforestry: Institutional innovation from smallholders in a brazilian rural settlement	23
Second homes, amenity-led change and consumption-driven rural restructuring: The case of Xingfu village, China	23
Selection of targeted poverty alleviation policies from the perspective of land resources-environmental carrying capacity	23
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space: Microurbanisation in Northern Iceland	23
Does labour migration necessarily promote farmers' land transfer-in?—Empirical evidence from China's rural panel data	23
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland	22
Place attachment and digitalisation in rural regions	22
Public transport-disadvantaged rural areas in relation to daily accessibility of regional centre: Case study from Slovakia	22
Developing a framework for radical and incremental social innovation in rural areas	22
Entrepreneurship and the formation mechanism of Taobao Villages: Implications for sustainable development in rural areas	22
Praised, prized, yet penalised: A critical examination of low-wage hiring queues in the global strawberry industry	22
Diverse adaptation strategies helped local food producers cope with initial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from Québec, Canada	22
Rural gentrification, touristification, and displacement: Analysing evidence from Mexico	22
Variations in the determinants of regional development disparities in rural China	22
Cultivated land quality improvement to promote revitalization of sandy rural areas along the Great Wall in northern Shaanxi Province, China	22
Evaluation of sustainable agriculture and rural development in agro-pastoral ecotone under climate change: A comparative study of three villages in the Shenfu coalfield, China	22
Towards reconstructing rural landscapes: A case study of Italian Mongardino	21
Rurality as context for innovative responses to social challenges – The role of rural social enterprises	21
Exploring dairy farmers’ quality of life perceptions – A Swiss case study	21

Bridging the gap between smallholders and modern agriculture: Full insight into China's agricultural cooperatives	21
Governing Farmers through data? Digitization and the Question of Autonomy in Agri-environmental governance	21
Why comply? Farmer motivations and barriers in cannabis agriculture	21
Finnish dairy farmers’ perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming	21
Exploring the link between farmers’ entrepreneurial identities and work wellbeing	21
Competitiveness of diversification strategies in agricultural dairy farms: Empirical findings for rural regions in Switzerland	20
The aging of farmers and its challenges for labor-intensive agriculture in China: A perspective on farmland transfer plans for farmers' retirement	20
Why farmers perceive the use of e-government services as an administrative burden: A conceptual framework on influencing factors	20
Marketing to the foodshed: Why do farmers participate in local food systems?	20
Digitization as politics: Smart farming through the lens of weak and strong data	20
A quantitative analysis on Romanian rural areas, agritourism and the impacts of European Union’s financial subsidies	20
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU	20
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers	20
Can employment empower women? Female workers in the pineapple sector in Ghana	20
Supermarket and discounter accessibility in rural Germany– identifying food deserts using a GIS accessibility model	20
Securitising uncertainty: Ontological security and cultural scripts in smart farming technology implementation	20
Resisting the vineyard invasion: Anti-pesticide movements as a vehicle for territorial food democracy and just sustainability transitions	20
The role of metrics in the governance of the water-energy-food nexus within the European Commission	19
What is holding farmers back? Endowments and mobility choice of rural citizens in China	19
Learning to eat from others: Does nutritional information acquired from peers affect nutrition intake?	19
Rural development pressure and “three-stay” response: A case of Jinchang City in the Hexi Corridor, China	19
Learning from farmers’ experiences with participatory monitoring and evaluation of regenerative agriculture based on visual soil assessment	19
Bridging social capital as a resource for rural revitalisation in China? A survey of community connection of university students with home villages	19
Nuanced assessment of livelihood resilience through the intersectional lens of gender and ethnicity: Evidence from small-scale farming communities in the upland regions of Vietnam	19
Digital multilocality: New modes of working between center and periphery in Switzerland	19
Do organic standards have a real taste of sustainability? – A critical essay	19
Antecedents and consequences of sustainable development in agriculture and the moderator role of the barriers: Proposal and test of a structural model	19
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	19
Exploring the differences between coastal farmers’ subjective and objective risk preferences in China using an agent-based model	18
The importance of artisanal and small-scale mining for rural economies: Livelihood diversification, dependence, and heterogeneity in rural Guinea	18
Developing rural insights for building age-friendly communities	18
Diverse values of urban-to-rural migration: A case study of Hokuto City, Japan	18
The emergence of social innovation in rural revitalisation practices: A comparative case study from Taiwan	18
Exploring national trajectories of organic agriculture in Africa. Comparing Benin and Uganda	18
Mission impossible? Pursuing the co-existence of viable predator populations and sustainable reindeer husbandry in Finland	18
Refugee entrepreneurship in the agri-food industry: The Swedish experience	18
Vernacular or modern: Transitional preferences of residents living in varied stages of urbanisation regarding rural landscape features	18
The domestication triangle: How humans, animals and technology shape each other – The case of automated milking systems	18
Aesthetic heterogeneity on rural landscape: Pathway discrepancy between perception and cognition	17
Social, cultural and spatial imaginaries in rural tourism transitions	17
Analysis of dispersed farmers’ willingness to grow grain and main influential factors based on the structural equation model	17
Curbing overstocking on rangeland through subsidies, rewards, and herders’ social capital: Lessons from Qinghai province, China	17
From Land Consolidation and Food Safety to Taobao Villages and Alternative Food Networks: Four Components of China's Dynamic Agri-Rural Innovation System	17
Climate risk perceptions and perceived yield loss increases agricultural technology adoption in the polder areas of Bangladesh	17
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?	17
Should we use email for farm surveys? A comparative study of email and postal survey response rate and non-response bias	17
‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms	17
Analysing the efficiency of diversified farms: Evidences from Italian FADN data	17
The drivers associated with Murray-Darling Basin irrigators’ future farm adaptation strategies	17
Can a ‘good farmer’ be nature-inclusive? Shifting cultural norms in farming in The Netherlands	17
Enterprise hubs as a mechanism for local economic development in rural areas	17
The role of origin products and networking on agritourism performance: The case of Tuscany	17
Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities	17
Immigration and integration in rural areas and the agricultural sector: An EU perspective	17
Anticipating farmer outcomes of three genetically modified staple crops in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from farming systems research	16
Village schools as a hub in the community - A time-geographical analysis of the closing of two rural schools in southern Sweden	16
No farmer no food, assessing farmers climate change mitigation, and adaptation behaviors in farm production	16
Agroecological education for food sovereignty: Insights from formal and non-formal spheres in Brazil and Spain	16
Factors affecting the regional distribution of organic farming	16
Post-Soviet smallholders between entrepreneurial farming and diversification. Livelihood pathways in rural Moldova	16
The suitability and sustainability of governance structures in land consolidation under institutional change: A comparative case study	16
‘The village as a coat’; changes in the person-environment fit for older people in a rural area in The Netherlands	16
The resilience of Finnish farms: Exploring the interplay between agency and structure	16
Effect of farm structure on rural community well-being	16
Non-economic societal impact or economic revenue? A performance and efficiency analysis of farmer cooperatives in China	16
Animal welfare and cow-calf contact-farmers’ attitudes, experiences and adoption barriers	16
Emerging rural spatial restructuring regimes in China: A tale of three transitional villages in the urban fringe	16
Desolation in the countryside: How agricultural crime impacts the mental health of British farmers	16
Longitudinal analysis of household types and livelihood trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico	16
Farmers' knowledge, attitude, and practice of rural industrial land changes and their influencing factors: Evidences from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China	16
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors	16
Spanish women pastoralists' pathways into livestock management: Motivations, challenges and learning	16
Do rural school closures lead to local population decline?	16
Theoretical and practical research into excavation slope protection for agricultural geographical engineering in the Loess Plateau: A case study of China's Yangjuangou catchment	16
Place-making in the Corn Belt: The productivist landscapes of the “good farmer”	16
Did the pandemic bring new features to counter-urbanisation? Evidence from Estonia	16
Farmer-led participatory extension leads Haitian farmers to anticipate climate-related risks and adjust livelihood strategies	16
Winegrowers’ decision-making: A pan-European perspective on pesticide use and inter-row management	16
Rural gentrification of the ancient city of Assos (Behramkale) in Turkey	16
Participatory assessment of critical thresholds for resilient and sustainable European farming systems	16
Hegel, Beck and the reconceptualization of ecological risk: The example of Australian agriculture	15
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China	15
Renewable energy diversification: Considerations for farm business resilience	15
Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development: Perspectives from sparsely populated areas	15
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China	15
Connecting science, policy, and practice in agri-food system transformation: The role of boundary infrastructures in the evolution of Brazilian pig production	15
Seasonal gentrification and its (dis)contents: Exploring the temporalities of rural change in a Turkish small town	15
Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar	15
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside	15
Understanding diversity in farmers’ routinized crop protection practices	15
Migrant labour in the UK’s post-Brexit agri-food system: Ambiguities, contradictions and precarities	15
Everyday life as a refugee in a rural setting – What determines a sense of belonging and what role can the local community play in generating it?	15
Evidence of resilience capacity in farmers’ narratives: Accounts of robustness, adaptability and transformability across five different European farming systems	15
Poverty Stories of rural households in China: The case of North Jiangsu	15
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	15